What leap.club does

leap.club is a private, women-only professional networking community headquartered in Gurugram, India, founded around 2020. The company operates curated in-person community experiences — 'rooms' comprising suppers, real conversations, play, and evening events — across three Indian metropolitan markets: Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Prospective members apply through a multi-stage admission process (waitlist, shortlist, curation) and are vetted for clarity of thought rather than credentials alone, with reported outcomes including co-founder discovery, career shifts, and professional collaborations.

The core product, leap.club 2.0, is deliberately positioned as 'not an app, not a membership, not a group chat' — a curated physical-first community rather than a software platform. The company has no native mobile app, API, or disclosed integrations; technology plays a minimal role in the value proposition, which centers on trust, curation, and in-person facilitation. GTM is community-led, relying on organic word-of-mouth, Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack, and member referrals rather than paid acquisition.

leap.club monetizes through recurring membership fees from individual paying members. As of December 2022, the company reported 10,000 paying members and has stated a target of 100,000 paying members and 100 crore INR (approximately USD 12M) in revenue within three years. The company has raised approximately USD 2.19M across four funding rounds (May 2020, July 2020, October 2021, December 2022), with Enzia Ventures as a consistent lead investor and Kunal Shah, Ghazal Alagh, Alok Mittal, and platform users as additional backers.

Name

leap.club

Legal name

leap.club

Website

https://leap.club

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

leap.club is a Gurugram-based, women-only professional networking community operating curated in-person 'rooms' (suppers, conversations, evenings) across Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore, monetizing through recurring individual memberships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Networking Community

NAICS

Other Similar Organizations (except Business, Professional, Labor, and Political Organizations) (81399)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Adult/Public Speaking Clubs & Community Organizations (EDAMAOAI)

Keywords

• Women professional network
• Curated membership community
• Professional networking events
• Women leadership community
• In-person networking club

Headquarters

HQ city

Gurugram

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership/Subscription: The company operates on a membership model with paying members. As of December 2022, the company had 10,000 paying members and aimed to grow to 100,000 paying members. The revenue target is 100 crore INR in the next three years.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

leap.club operates a curated, women-only community organized around in-person "rooms" — including suppers, real conversations, play, and evening events — across Delhi, Mumbai (Bombay), and Bangalore. Prospective members apply through a waitlist and are shortlisted on the basis of "clarity of thought > just achievement" before being invited into the community. The paid-membership community exists to facilitate meaningful professional outcomes such as co-founder matches, career shifts, and collaborations.

Product overview

leap.club is a community-led professional network for women, positioned as a curated in-person community experience rather than a traditional app, membership, or group chat. The core product (leap.club 2.0) centers on 'rooms' — thoughtfully curated physical gatherings for suppers, conversations, play, and evening events. Membership requires application and curation, with the platform operating in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore. The company previously operated as a professional networking platform with digital components but transitioned to a physical-first community model focused on meaningful connections and professional growth.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• leap.club 2.0 A curated, women-only community product organized around in-person 'rooms' (suppers, real conversations, play, and evening events) in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Membership is granted via a multi-stage admission process: waitlist → shortlist based on clarity of thought → additional context questions → curated invite. The product is positioned as a community experience, not an app or membership card, designed to enable co-founder matches, career shifts, and collaborator introductions among ambitious women.

Quantifiable outcome

• Women found co-founders, made career shifts, and met collaborators through the community rooms

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Sheroes: India-based women-focused professional and career community offering networking, mentorship, and job opportunities — overlapping directly with leap.club's target segment of Indian professional women seeking career transitions and connections.
• Chief: US-based private membership network for senior women leaders built around curated peer groups and in-person events — analogous product positioning (curated, women-only, room-based) targeted at ambitious women, though at a more senior executive tier.
• The Wing: Pioneering women-only co-working and social club built around curated physical spaces and programmed rooms — directly comparable to leap.club's physical-first, women-only curated 'rooms' model and serves as the most-cited global analog.
• Ellevate Network: Membership-based professional network for women offering in-person meetups, mentorship circles, and curated community — comparable mission of meaningful peer connections for professional women, though primarily digital-first with global distribution.
• HeyMama: Membership community connecting working mothers and professional women through curated local chapters and events — peers on the women-exclusive, community-led, in-person gathering model and a documented cautionary case on scaling.
• Mogul: Global career and community platform for women offering curated content, networking events, and a member directory — overlapping with leap.club's women-only professional networking, mentorship, and career-development positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Soho House: Global membership-based club operator with curated physical spaces, events, and member programming — comparable business model (paid membership, curated experience, in-person rooms) but far broader demographic and much larger scale.
• LinkedIn (women-focused initiatives): Mass-market professional network that competes for the same finite attention budget of professional women and increasingly launches women-focused content products; not a curated community but sets the baseline experience leap.club must beat.

Emerging players

• Lean In Circles: Sheryl Sandberg-backed small-group peer community for women organized around curated local circles — comparable 'small, intentional room' format and women-focused professional development mission, though organized non-commercially.
• Women Who Win: India-based community and events platform for professional women that combines curated events, content, and a member directory — adjacent positioning to leap.club with an India market focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/leapdotclub

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors12 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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